Dinosaurs and Shopping . . . No Bones About It!

                It's off to London's Natural History Museum on our first full day here. 

This is a beautiful Victorian era old museum that was built in the 1800's has quite a collection from a much older time period:  Dinosaurs!  Bones, that is. 

We went into the dinosaur bones exhibit, which is very kid friendly and informative.

Everything was going along swimmingly until Lincoln heard a roar from behind a tall wall . . . this was not a welcome sound to this 4-year old!  The Museum had reconstructed a T. Rex to be animated, with sound effects and moving parts . . . not one bit of it was to Lincoln's liking, so we went past this exhibit pretty quickly.  Survival of the fittest sometimes means survival of the fastest!

We continued through the Museum and saw many other exhibits.  When he gets older, Lincoln is going to enjoy returning and participating in some of the exhibits that were meant for the older kids.

So, how do you follow up a visit to an internationally-renowned museum such as London's Natural History Museum?  Why, you go to Harrods, of course, for tea and shopping . . .

Harrods is quite a unique shopping experience and destination.  I think most people go there just to view the very high-end products they sell and are on display.  The store seems to be on the cutting edge for fashion and technology products.  Even their candy room, food market and meat counters are packed with everything.  I had never seen so many truffles and chocolate candies displays like they have. 

In case you ever need to know this, the 3rd floor is called "Toy Kingdom" - it's unbelievably packed with every type of toy you could think of and more!  By the way, Harrods ships.  Wait til Lincoln gets home . . . .

The Legos exhibits were particularly interesting because they were so complicated and well done: 

The Harrods Store!

Close up of the Harrods Store

The Tower Bridge

We were pretty well spent by the end of the day. The next day will be another busy day . . .